The Vermont Constitution was in 1777, and remains, among the most far reaching in guaranteeing personal freedoms and individual rights.

"The Vermont Constitution imposes certain protections for our citizens which should not and cannot be abrogated by a budget squeeze."

The Vermont Constitution guarantees broad rights for its citizens.

And even in Ben-and-Jerryville, incidentally, it took a court to force the state to recognize civil unions by discovering that right in the Vermont Constitution.

The Vermont Constitution says Louis Peck is too old to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.

Justice Peck turned 70 in December and under the Vermont Constitution should have retired at the end of 1988.

He was a member of the commission to prepare and propose amendments to the Vermont Constitution in 1908.

The case involves a provision in the Vermont Constitution that requires all judges to retire at the end of the year in which they become 70.

The Vermont Constitution (Chapter 2, Section 13) requires that House districts be limited to one or two members.